2022 Best Value Colleges for Library & Information Science in Rhode Island (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Library Science Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 5,403 people earned their degree in library and information science, making the major the 124th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, library and information science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,496 and had an average of $36,654 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 33 library and information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,600 and $30,320 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent library and information science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the library and information science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Library Science Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Library Science Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Library Science Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Library & Information Science in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$20,607 Average Net Price

$43,698 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Library Science Schools in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid. Kingston, Rhode Island is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s library science degrees to 33 students in 2019-2020.

URI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Library & Information Science Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. It costs about $20,607 for Rhode Island Library Science students with aid per year to attend University of Rhode Island.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Library & Information Science at University of Rhode Island

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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